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(In Cantonese);
Sir, the Financial Secretary has spent
to design a lot of time and effort designing a
balanced Budget. This deserves our con- gratulations. In the Budget, some tax concessions have been proposed, these are good news for the public. Today I would like to comment on the following items
jabout social welfare, education, and taxation and care of
the elderly
~ Care of the elderly
'irst of all, sonderning the care of the lc. elderly Among various social welfare
services, I am most concerned about services for the elderly. I am glad to see that in recent years, social welfare
take
services have taken up an increasing
portion of our resources.
In the next
year, the total expenditure on social
welfare services is $3.9 billion, that
per cent
In com-
is 6.3% of total expenditure.
per cent
parison with the 5.7% in 1987/88, it
elagor
is an increase. I understand that part
of the increase is due to improvements
in services for the elderly and for the disabled. Even though the existing services for the elderly, the focus is
but will still on community care we must not
overlook that we should provide instit- utional care for the elderly who require
the this service. For those who are getting
even older and weaker, when community care cannot accommodate such people, the only way to take care of them is to provide them with institutional care. Recently, the Social Welfare Advisory, Committee endorsed a proposal to raise the planning ratio of care and atten-